Pregnancy Among Women Receiving Chronic Dialysis in France (2006-2020).

Introduction: In women receiving chronic dialysis, fertility is impaired. The objectives of this study were to estimate the incidence rate of pregnancies among women of childbearing age (15-50 years) receiving chronic dialysis from 2006 to 2020 in France, to describe the pregnancy outcomes and renal management during pregnancy.

Methods: This national observational, retrospective study was based on data from the French REIN registry matched with the National Health Data System.

Outbreak of pneumonia in hospitalized patients: Who is concerned? Nord Franche-Comté Hospital, France, 2023-2024.

We report an outbreak of confirmed community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) in Hospital, France, from 14 November 2023 to 31 January 2024. All 13 inpatients (11 adults with a mean age of 45.5 years and 2 children) were diagnosed with positive serology and/or positive reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) on respiratory specimens.

Combination of intercropping maize and soybean with root exudate additions reduces metal mobility in soil-plant system under wastewater irrigation.

The effects of root exudates and irrigation with treated wastewater on heavy metal mobility and soil bacterial composition under intercropping remain poorly understood. We conducted a pot experiment with maize and soybean grown in monocultures or intercultures, irrigated with either groundwater or treated wastewater. In addition, the pre-collected root exudates from hydroponic culture with mono- or inter-cropped maize and soybean were applied to the soil at four levels (0 %, 16 %, 32 % and 64 %).

Treated Livestock Wastewater Irrigation Is Safe for Maize () and Soybean () Intercropping System Considering Heavy Metals Migration in Soil-Plant System.

Water deficit is a major problem affecting crop production worldwide. The use of treated wastewater in irrigation systems improves soil health and enhances crop growth and productivity. However, it has been characterized as a source of heavy metals.

Suitable split nitrogen application increases grain yield and photosynthetic capacity in drip-irrigated winter wheat ( L.) under different water regimes in the North China Plain.

Chemical fertilizer overuse is a major environmental threat, critically polluting soil and water resources. An optimization of nitrogen (N) fertilizer application in winter wheat ( L.) in association with various irrigation scheduling is a potential approach in this regard.

Mobile Money and the importance of timely, complete payments to frontline health campaign workers in the fight to eradicate polio: pilot experience from a World Health Organization digital payment platform in Africa.

Background: In response to the increase in vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 in Côte d'Ivoire, Mali, and many other African countries from 2017 to 2019, concentrated efforts are needed to improve the effectiveness of vaccination campaigns. Frontline polio health campaign worker engagement and job retention are critical to successful campaign implementation, as well as timely, in-full payment to these workers via an electronic system.

Methods: The Global Polio Eradication Initiative and its partners designed a road map to implement the World Health Organization Mobile Money digital payment system for health campaign workers across designated African Region countries and country-specific areas.

Maize () Seedlings Rhizosphere Microbial Community as Responded to Acidic Biochar Amendment Under Saline Conditions.

Biochar has extensively been used for multiple purposes in agriculture, including improving soil microbial biomass. The current study aimed to investigate the effect of acidic biochar on maize seedlings' rhizosphere bacterial abundance under salinity. There were seven treatments and three replicates in a controlled greenhouse coded as B0S1, B1S1, and B2S1 and B0S2, B1S2, and B2S2.

Coordination of leaf hydraulic, anatomical, and economical traits in tomato seedlings acclimation to long-term drought.

Background: Leaf hydraulic and economics traits are critical for balancing plant water and CO exchange, and their relationship has been widely studied. Leaf anatomical traits determine the efficiency of CO diffusion within mesophyll structure. However, it remains unclear whether leaf anatomical traits are associated with leaf hydraulic and economics traits acclimation to long-term drought.

Linking exogenous foliar application of glycine betaine and stomatal characteristics with salinity stress tolerance in cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) seedlings.

Background: Glycine betaine (GB) plays a crucial role in plants responding to abiotic stresses. Studying the physiological response of cotton seedlings to exogenous GB under salt stress provides a reference for the application of GB to improve the resistance of cotton seedlings under salt stress. The purpose of this research is to examine the impacts of foliar-applied GB on leaf stomatal structure and characteristics, gas exchange and chlorophyll fluorescence characteristics and plant growth indicators of Gossypium hirsutum L.

Application of Exogenous Protectants Mitigates Salt-Induced Na Toxicity and Sustains Cotton ( L.) Seedling Growth: Comparison of Glycine Betaine and Salicylic Acid.

Soil salinization adversely affects agricultural productivity. Mitigating the adverse effects of salinity represents a current major challenge for agricultural researchers worldwide. The effects of exogenously applied glycine betaine (GB) and salicylic acid (SA) on mitigating sodium toxicity and improving the growth of cotton seedlings subjected to salt stress remain unclear.

Leaf Gas Exchange of Tomato Depends on Abscisic Acid and Jasmonic Acid in Response to Neighboring Plants under Different Soil Nitrogen Regimes.

High planting density and nitrogen shortage are two important limiting factors for crop yield. Phytohormones, abscisic acid (ABA), and jasmonic acid (JA), play important roles in plant growth. A pot experiment was conducted to reveal the role of ABA and JA in regulating leaf gas exchange and growth in response to the neighborhood of plants under different nitrogen regimes.

Responses of leaf gas exchange attributes, photosynthetic pigments and antioxidant enzymes in NaCl-stressed cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) seedlings to exogenous glycine betaine and salicylic acid.

Background: Application of exogenous glycine betaine (GB) and exogenous salicylic acid (SA) mitigates the adverse effects of salinity. Foliar spraying with exogenous GB or SA alleviates salt stress in plants by increasing leaf gas exchange and stimulating antioxidant enzyme activity. The effects of foliar application of exogenous GB and SA on the physiology and biochemistry of cotton seedlings subjected to salt stress remain unclear.

Factors associated with parathyroid hormone control in haemodialysis patients with secondary hyperparathyroidism treated with cinacalcet in real-world clinical practice: Mimosa study.

Background: Secondary hyperparathyroidism (SHPT) is frequent in haemodialysis (HD) patients. Oral cinacalcet-hydrochloride (HCl) decreases parathyroid hormone (PTH); however, real-life PTH data, according to Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) guidelines, are still lacking. Our goal is to assess the percentage of cinacalcet-HCl-treated HD patients with controlled SHPT (PTH <9× upper limit of the normal range) after 12 months (M12) of treatment.

School status and its associations among children with epilepsy in the Republic of Guinea.

Background: In low-income countries (LICs), there are multiple barriers for children with epilepsy (CWE) to attend school. We examined potentially modifiable associations with poor school performance in CWE in the West African Republic of Guinea.

Methods: Children with epilepsy of school age were recruited using public announcements and a clinical register of people with epilepsy at the Ignace Deen Hospital in Conakry in 2018.

Smartphone EEG and remote online interpretation for children with epilepsy in the Republic of Guinea: Quality, characteristics, and practice implications.

Purpose: Children with epilepsy in low-income countries often go undiagnosed and untreated. We examine a portable, low-cost smartphone-based EEG technology in a heterogeneous pediatric epilepsy cohort in the West African Republic of Guinea.

Methods: Children with epilepsy were recruited at the Ignace Deen Hospital in Conakry, 2017.

Epilepsy and traditional healers in the Republic of Guinea: A mixed methods study.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to characterize the reasons, extent, and impact of traditional medicine use among people with epilepsy (PWE) in the Republic of Guinea.

Methods: Guinea is a low-income country in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) with limited healthcare resources. People with epilepsy and their caregivers were seen at a public referral hospital in Conakry, the capital city, where they completed semi-structured interviews with physicians regarding their beliefs about epilepsy, medical care, and engagement with traditional healers.

[Myocardial infarction as complication of acute pancreatitis].

We report a case of an acute pancreatitis complicated by myocardial infarction with normal coronary arteries on angiography. This observation presents a double interest. First, it illustrates unusual forms of coronary disease represented by the non-atherosclerotic infarction.

[Silent myocardial infarction and antiphospholipid antibody syndrome].

We describe a case of 18-year-old woman followed for 3 years for systemic lupus erythematosis (SLE) complicated of a nephrectomy. Having like only factor of cardiovascular risk a balanced arterial hypertension. The patient was hospitalized because of choreo-athetosic's movement.

[Myocardial infarction in patients with diabetes: comparative series of 85 patients with 16 patients without diabetes].

Objectives: The aim of this study was to determine the clinical characteristics, treatment and development of myocardial infarction in patients with diabetes.

Methods: From September 1999 through December 2003, 191 patients with myocardial infarction were hospitalized in the cardiology department of the Mohamed V military teaching hospital in Rabat, Morocco. They included 85 patients with diabetes (D) and 106 without it (ND).

Regional citrate anticoagulation during hemodialysis: a simplified procedure using Duocart biofiltration.

Background: Regional citrate anticoagulation during hemodialysis is promising, but its clinical implementation is routinely cumbersome because a continuous adjustment of calcium infusion at the dialyzer outlet is needed. Duocart biofiltration (DCB) is a new hemodialysis method using a calcium and magnesium-free dialysate containing only sodium chloride and bicarbonate combined with the infusion into the venous line of a solution containing the ionic complement (K, Ca, Mg) and glucose. Since the dialysate is calcium- and magnesium-free and infusion rate of the solution containing calcium is automatically determined by the dialysis delivery system according to the on-line measured value of ionic dialysance, DCB seems a technique especially suitable for citrate anticoagulation procedure.

[Factors correlated with left ventricular mass in hypertensive patients].

Unlabelled: Left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) is an independent risk factor in hypertensive patient.

The Aim: Of our study is to evaluate prospectively the relationship between left ventricular mass and clinical, echocardiographical and ambulatory blood pressure data in hypertensive subjects.

Methods: We studied 88 hypertensive patient who underwent clinical and laboratory investigation, echocardiography and 24 hours ambulatory blood pressure monitoring.

[Value of preserved saphenous vein graft for the creation of access ports in hemodialyzed patients: report of 309 cases].

Introduction: Biological grafts are rarely used for the creation of vascular access, despite their many advantages. Our group prefers to use distal vascular accesses with interposition of a biological graft when direct access cannot be achieved. The objective of this study was to determine the long-term patency and the complication rate of a series of 309 vascular access procedures using a preserved saphenous (PS) vein homograft.

Effect of low-dose perindopril/indapamide on albuminuria in diabetes: preterax in albuminuria regression: PREMIER.

Microalbuminuria in diabetes is a risk factor for early death and an indicator for aggressive blood pressure (BP) lowering. We compared a combination of 2 mg perindopril/0.625 mg indapamide with enalapril monotherapy on albumin excretion rate (AER) in patients with type 2 diabetes, albuminuria, and hypertension in a 12-month, randomized, double-blind, parallel-group international multicenter study.

[Mobile and obstructive thrombus of the left atrium. Value and risks of transesophageal echocardiography. Report of a case and review of the literature].

Authors report the observation of a young woman of 30 years hospitalised for degeneration of a mitral biologic prosthesis. Transthoracic echocardiography visualizes a voluminous mass of the left auricle of which the character free and destitute of all parietal attachment, doesn't have can be established that by transoesophageal echocardiography that detects another thrombus also free and mobile of the left auricule, unrecognised by transthoracic way. The operative indication is carried in emergency but the patient dies suddenly some hours after this exam.